Cairns Interactive

This presentation will cover the common causes of unilateral red eyes including infectious, inflammatory, and other causes. We will discuss the differential diagnosis based on signs and symptoms, and the most appropriate treatment protocols.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and differentiate common causes of a unilateral red eye and understand the most appropriate treatment protocols

A number of cases will be presented to highlight both common and uncommon clinical presentations.

Managing ocular trauma and injury can be difficult. We will review best practice assessment including the specific findings to assess dependent on the type of trauma experienced. We will cover on-the-day management of many types of injury including common epithelial abrasions and foreign bodies and more complex trauma such as chemical injury, blunt force trauma and penetrating ocular injury. Management often extends beyond the first assessment for minor and moderate trauma and we will consider the secondary complications and consequences that these patients are often susceptible to in order to develop a comprehensive management plan for the wide range of traumatic injuries we may be required to assess.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess the features of ocular injury with particular reference to the type of injury and the probable findings, including simple epithelial trauma, foreign bodies, chemical injuries, blunt force trauma and penetrating injury.
• Understand the immediate first aid required for a wide range of presentations of ocular injury.
• Develop a management plan covering immediate treatment through to long-term follow-up.
• Understand the long-term effects of ocular trauma and the secondary complications and consequences that can occur.

It can be difficult to apply knowledge in the stressful moment when an injured eye walks through the practice door. Using case examples of ocular injuries we will consider best-practice assessment of acutely injured eyes and develop management plans for a range of ocular injury and trauma including both common epithelial abrasions and foreign bodies and more complex trauma such as chemical injury, blunt force trauma and penetrating ocular injury.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess the features of ocular injury and apply first-aid knowledge to cases, understanding the immediate first aid required and developing a short and long-term management plan.
• Discuss and understand the long-term effects of ocular trauma and the secondary complications and consequences that can occur.

Myopia management studies typically focus on children, but myopia often progresses into the late teens and beyond. We need to understand how treatments given to young patients cope with the changing lifestyles and needs that come with maturity. This presentation reviews what happens when children wearing MiSight 1 day for myopia management grow up.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the long-term effects of full-time soft contact lens wear on corneal physiology.

Rebecca Cox

Rebekah Hopps

Since 2021 she has expanded her skills with Adelaide Eye Care, gaining hands-on experience in the fitting of custom soft and rigid contact lenses of all modalities. She continues to manage patients with acute red eye or chronic anterior disease among her new and existing patients.

As Chair of the Rural and Regional COPE committee has co- authored a guide to Optometrist initiated eye swabs.